Aha, yes indeed I noticed that some Sage components will not work on Windows but I didn't know about the Cygwin Python. Thanks for explaining!
On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 2:01:08 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > I've already expalined here > https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/issues/12 that PyCharm doesn't > support Cygwin Python, > and thus it's not going to be trivial to fix. The reason that we must use > Cygwin Python is that a number of essential Sage components (i.e. Python > extensions you need) e.g. GAP, won't work natively on Windows, as they use > fork() and other Unix/Posix specific system functions. > > On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 12:19:56 PM UTC, PHPirate wrote: >> >> Thanks, it sounds reasonable. But do you mean the Jupyter notebook >> included with Sage, which you can start with >> sage --notebook ipython >> from the Sage shell? I do not like notebooks such as this one and >> Mathematica because they do not go well with a VCS. Is it then possible to >> use this Jupyter to edit and run Sage files saved in a better way, like >> python files? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
